Local Brevities

The bloomer girl with winsome grace Confuseg one and all, They look an Instant on her face, And then their glances fall. Please PAY SUBSCRIPTIONS NCW. Arthur Sweet has been appointed truant officer by the school board. Mrs. Wm. Caspary has purchased a residenoe corner of N. State and Kingsley sts. A new steam heating apparatns is being put into the St. James hotel. The work is being done by Hutzel & Co. The Young 'Woman's Christian Association of Michigan will hold its annual state convention at Lansing, Oct. 16-19. Einsey & Seabolt, on E. Washington st. , and Muehlig & Schmid, on S. Main st., have had their stores repainted. Two more carloads of paving brick have been received f rom Barberton, O., for the use of the city. They contained 12,800 bricks. Mr. Charles H. Watson, of Detroit, and Miss Myrtle Burbank, of tbis city, were married on Friday evening by Rev. T. W. Young. From Oct. 10 the Ladies' Library will be open again every morning froni 10 to 12 o'clock, and also Saturdays frora 2 to 5 p. m. Prof. Richard Hudson's house on Tappan st. , which is one of the finest put together houses in the city, will be completad next week. A recent poll of the male studeuts at tbe state Normal school showed 82 for the gold Standard, 60 for free silver and several uudecided. A nurnber of the youug friends of George Kyer dropped in on him Friday evening and helped him celébrate the 19th anniversary of his birth. Clifford T., the four months oíd son of Mr. and Mrs. Carrie Brokaw, of Northfield, died on Sunday of indigestión, and was buried Tuesday. At a meeting of the high sohool athletio association held Friday, Stowe Neal was eleoted president and Dan. Zimmerman baseball manager. The weather wise ones who saw the large flock of crows passing over the city to the southwest Monday mnming are predicting a cold snap soon. Dr. W. B. Smith has presented the high sohool library with 62 volumes of Harper's Monthly Magazine, one volume of which dates back to 1855. The Ann Arbor camp of Modern Woodmen assisted its brethren in Ypsilanti witb the initiation of several candidates Thursday evening, Oct. 1. A teachers' examination for second and third grades certifioates will be held at the court house, Thursday and Friday of next week, Oct. lü and 16. Rev. W. H. H. Butler, of Detroit, presiding eider of the Detroit district of the A. M. E. cburcb, addressed a republioan rally at the court house last evening. Luiok Bros. are putting up two houses on their property on K. Fourth ave. When completed they will be occupied by employés of the Luick planing mili. Letters patent were granted to City Engineer George F. Key, SepÉ. 29. ón a steel railroad tie. It possesses many advantages over all other metallic ties both in cheapness and adaptabiity. To judge from the ïiumber of small boys that are daily seen on our streets smoking cigarettes, the law prohibiting the sale or giving of tobáceo to minors is not being enforced at all. The flrst faculty concert of the seasoo was given last evening at tbe School of Musio. There are in all flve conoerts to be given dnring the first semester. Single admission is 25 cents, or $1 for the course. Mr. Charles D. O'Connor, late manager of the Chicago shoe store, is to be married at St. John's Catholic church, Ypsilauti, next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, to Miss Lizzie M. Doyle. The ceremony will be followed by a reception at the home of the bride. Please PAY SUBSCRIPTIONS NCW. The state board of corrections and charities has issued a request to the olergymen of the state to observe Sunday, Oct. 25, as prison Suuday. The Woman's Auxiliary of the Young Men's Christian Associatiou will boltl its regular moutbly business meeting Monday, Oct. 1, at 3 p. m., in the association rooms. W. E. Ware, city attorney of Jackson, addressed a fair sized audience at the court house, Tuesday evening, in the interest of free silver. Densmore Cramer presided. There will be an inspection of Welch Corps No. 218, W. R. C, at the next regular meeting on Tuesday afternoou, Oct. 13, at 2:30 o'clock. A f uil attendance is requested. A free for all rough and tumble fight by a gang of uegroes amused a crowd of spectators in front of the city building Monday night. No one was hurt and no arrests were made. The funeral of the late Mrs. C. V. R. Pond, was held in Lansing on Monday. Mrs. Pond had been ill for a long time previous to her death. She was well known to many in Ann Arbor. The social reception announced to be given by the Y. P. S. C. E., of the Presbyteriau church to raorrow evening bas been postponed until next Friday, when it will be held in the chnroh parlors. Hereafter the Young Men's Christian Association rooms will be opened at 9 a. m. each day instead of at 2 p. in., as heretofore. Growth of tho work and increased attendance has made the change necessary. A free silver club which has 70 members has been organized at the state normal school, Ypsilanti. Theodore F. Drake is its president and Irviag A. smjretary. It is a very onthusiastio uiuli, The Art Embroidery Club had an invitation reuiption at the home of Miss Emily L. Pitkin, 89 S. Fifth ave., yesterday afternoon. Some handsome specimens of work were exhibited aud a very pleasant afternoon was spent. Thos. C. Colburn, of the firm of Parker, Colburn & Schneider, hardware merchants, was married Tuesday evening to Miss Margaret VanSlyke, Rev. J. M. Gelston performing the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Colburn will reside on S. División st. The pilgrimage of Ann Arbor republicans to Major McKinley's home at Cantón, Tuesday morniug, and wbich it was calculated would number ai least 600 people, turned out to be a miserable fizzle. Less than a dozen people were on hand to take the train, so the afïair was declared off. The Montana silver statue which through the eDterprise of E. F. Mills & Co. has been on exhibition at their store the past week, has drawn a large npmber of people to view its artistic beauty as well as'to see a ma-s of gold and silver whose weight is 6,200 pouns and intrinsio value $293,800. The opening party at Grauger'saeademy Tuesday evening was largely atended. A good program nf dances was enjoyed to the excellent music furnished. Dariug tbe summer the hall has beeü renovated aud geuerally fixed up and will be more cúmplete in its arrangement for the comfort of its patrous than ever. Tbe loog talked of improvemeuts in the Masooic temple are at lengtb under way. The second fligbt oí stairá leiding to the rooms occupied by tbe fraternity bas been cut into two short ones aDd will be a great boon to thoee who bave to rnake use of them. Other muoh needed iroprovenients are to be made in the parlors and ante-rooms. A McKinley and Hobart club was organized in this city Monday evening. Forty-five people attended the meeting. S. A. Moran was elected president, W. E. Stocking secretary, and O. M. Martin treasurer. A list of 11? ñames was exhibited as members of the club and claims were made that outstanding lists would increase that number to 400. The opening lecture in the Unity Club Course will be given next Monday evening üct. 2, by Mrs. Eliza R. Sunderland. Her subject will b3 "Rome. " The lecture will be finely illustrated with stereopticon views. Mrs. Sunderland has just returned from an extensive visit to Rome, of whose history she has been for years a special student. The supreme court has decided tüat a railroad in Michigan cannot charge more than three cents a mile. The L. S. & M. S. charged 25 cpnts between Trenton and Flat Rock. V. Y. Chamberlain refused to pay it He got a judgment of $400 in a lower court for being marie to walk home. The supreme court on Tuesday affirmed the judgment of the lower court. The prohibition convention for the second congressional district met in the Cook house parlors, Wednesday afternoon, and eacb of the counties in the distriot was represented. Charles Boylan, of Washtenaw, was chairman, and A. .T. Kempton, of Lenawee, secretary of the meeting. Rev. O. H. Perry, of Hanover, ' Jackson oounty, was the unanimoos choice of the convention. The ordinance relative to doing business by solicitation paiticularly affect ing the business carried on in Ann Arbor by outside laundries, came up before tbe conncil Mouday evening, and was put ovej for two weeks through the activity of tbe opposition. Eight outside lanndries, at Detroit, Sagioaw, Jaokson, Grand Rapids, Chelsea, Toledo, aud Kendallville, Ind., maintain agencies here, employing 20 or more students. The same ordinance would compel some dental snpply honses, a law book firm and a nnmber of outside houses about the state who send solicitors here for the student trade to pay a license of 100 per year each. Please PAY SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW. It is now Capt. Wm. Fischer, he having been reoently elected captain of the new military company that has been organized in Battle Creek. Will's many friends in Ann Arbor will congratúlate him on the event. The Young People's Sooieties of the different churches weie "at home" to the university stndents at the parlors of tho severa! churches, on Thursday, Friday and Satnrday of last week, from 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 o'clock p. m. A large number of the students were present. Duiing the past year 1 1 people have beeen conunitted to the eastern insane asylum at Pontiac from Washtenaw couuty. Of these five were from Ann Arbor city, one from Frefidom, one from Pittsfield, two from Salem, one from Sylvan, aud one from Ypsilanti oity. Acoording to tbe annual report of the Cigarmakers' International Union tbe total number of cigars manufaotnred in the ünited Statee for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, was 4,237,755,943, showing an incrsase of 73,783,504 over the last preceding fiscal year. CotnmissioDer Billings reports that the Michigan earnings of railroad companies in July were $2. 592,146.36, an increase of $47,992.06 over July, 1895. The aggregate earnings to -August J, this year, were $16, 655, 9S1. 33, an inorease of $732,880. 16 or 4.40 per cent over the same period of last year. In the October number of the North American Review Dr. R. Osgood Mason writes most interestingly upon the "Educational uses of hypnotism," explainiug how man's doublé personality may through hypnotic treatment become an adjnvaut in the development of his moral and iutellectoal well beDg. Tbe high school faculty is disposed, to suppress the Omega, and if this is done there is some talk of a monthly paper taking its place. At a meeting of the senior class Tuñsday a committee was appointed to asceitain the will of the class on the matter, which will report at a meeting of the class at noon today. Mrs. Josephine M. Kopff died at her home 44 N. State st, Monday noon, aged 58 years. The funeral services were held at St. Thomas' cburch yesterday morniag and the remains were buried in St. Thomas' cemetery. Mrs. Kopff was a widow and leaves three sous, Adolph, Frank A. and Leo A, Kopff, to mourn her loss. The Unity Club opening social at the Unitarian church, Monday eveuinp, was well attended and greatly enjoyed. Light refreshments were served and a general social time was had. The program rendered was as follows: Vocal solo, Mrs. Kempf ; violin solo, E. R. Sunderland ; vocal solo, Mr. Ransom George; and readings from Whitcomb Riley by Karl Harriman. The officers of the Anti-Tramp Society for the ensuing year are the same as last year: President, Rev. J. W. Bradshaw ; vice president, Eli Moore; secretary, Prof. Chas. Cooley ; treasurer, Chas. E. Hiscock; executive committee, tbe above namod officers, together with Prof. H. C. Adams, Rev. J. T. Sunderland, Dr. C. G. Darling, J. H. Wade and Joseph Clark. The Young Men's Christian Assooiation night sobool was auspiciously opened on Tuesday evening. George H. Pond, chairman of the educational committee told what the school was for and of some changes made in tho faculty, the work to be done in the different branches briefly outlined by the iostructors, after whioh two vocal selections were rendered by J. Stanger, accompanied by J. F. Sohaeberle. H. R. Allen added to the enjoyrnent of the evening by briuging in some of the products of his fruit farm. September was a cold month. But onoe in fifteen years has tbe thermometer touched as low a point as on the 2d, when it went down to 27, five degrees below freezing. It was in 1893 that the mercury touched the same point, 27 below. But the average mean temperatura for the montb, aocordiug to Prof. W. H. Howard's weather report, was the lowest in fifteen years, thus making September the oolde3t mouth in a decade and a half. The rainfall was mucb above the average, being 5.26 inohes as compared with an average of 3. 32 inches. John C. Grace, who has for several years been foreman of the east section of the Miohigan Central railroad, between Ann Arbor and Geddes, died Monday evening at his home, No. 54 N. Fifth ave., after an illness of two weeks, from typhoid fever. Mr. Grace was a straight forward, upright man and was much liked by his fellow employees on the road. He was 36 years of age at the time of his death. The funeral was held Wednesday morning at St. Thomas' churuh and was largely attended, the C. M. B. A., of which he was a member, attending in a body. Please PA Y SlBSCRIPTIONS NOW. I The high school foothail team will have a gnrue with the Adrián boys tomorrow to open up the season. The statistics of the United States department of agriculture show a dooided failing off íd the mitnbe.r and also the value of horses in this and other conutries as compared with the reports of a year ago. In tbis country alone there is a decline in the nniuber of horses 769,361, or 4.8 per cent, as oompared with last year, while the decline in value was $76,590,394, or 13.3 per oent. The regular meeting of the Washtenaw County Medical Society was held in the oouncil chamber at the court house, Saturday afternoon. 'interesting papers were read and reports of oases made by Drs. W. F. Breakey, George Donk, C. G. Darling and Martin L. Bnlser, of Ann Arbor, Stevens, of Detroit, Edward E. Batwell, of Ypsilanti, and D. P. McLachlan of York. A few remarks were also made by Dr. Eliza M. Mosher, dean of the woman's departmenc of the U. of M. The attempt of the Courier to belittle Mr. Kearntjy, tbe democratio nominee for probate judge.in order to boom its particular friend of Dexter, who is running against him, will reaot and rnake votes for Mr. Kearney, who has lived all his life in tbis uommunity and has made rnany friends by his straight fnrward honorable and manly course. He made a good prosecuting attorney and will make a first-class probate judge. His frieuds, whether democrats or republicana, will naturally resent any atempt to belittle him. Word has been received frorn Birmingham. Alabama, that the experiments with George Key's new process for making steel which have been going on there for some time have been successfnl to au tinexpected degree. This means much for the south and its vast stores of iron ore, and wealth and honor for our townsmao, Mr. Key. Actual experiment in the making of axes shows a saving of 66 per cent over the Bessemer process. A company with $1,000,000 capital for using the new procpss in manufacture has been